[Bill Dennen]

It looks like this plugin will do the trick:

http://brandonallen.org/wordpress/plugins/edit-author-slug/

[Bill Dennen]

Thanks. This is unfortunate. We feel that exposing this information (username) is a security problem. Plus, our usernames are sufficiently ugly that we’d rather not have them in URLs!

[Bill Dennen]

I know it’s been a while… but does anyone have any advice? thanks.